Why You Should Get a Dedicated Email Hosting Package

Web hosting plans usually include free email inboxes as part of the package. These email accounts and your website can be managed within the same web control panel, providing users with greater convenience.

Essentially, web hosting packages are for hosting websites; email inboxes are merely provided as a convenience for users. If you only require the basic minimum for your company’s email, you definitely can continue using the free email service covered in the hosting plan.

In this article, we are going to share some insights to why businesses should get a dedicated email hosting plan on top of their web hosting package. If your business relies heavily on email communication, read on to learn the benefits of a dedicated email hosting plan.

Why You Should Get a Dedicated Email Hosting Plan

1. When your web hosting goes down, so does your email

Most web hosting companies guarantee an almost 100% uptime for their hosting plans. In the worst case scenario, when your web hosting is affected, your email hosting will be hit as well. Having a dedicated email hosting plan separates the website hosting portion and the email hosting portion.

2. Shared IP for your Website and Email Services

In a shared hosting environment, users in the same server are sharing a common IP. This means that the reputation of the IP address may be affected by other shared users.

For example, if there is a high volume of email or messages that have characteristics of spam coming from the server IP, the shared IP will be flagged with a lower reputation. With a low reputation IP address, your email deliverability and receivability may be affected, resulting in a drop in business productivity.

In this case, having a separate email hosting package reduces the risk of having a lower reputation IP. However, this does not totally eliminate the potential problems for a shared hosting server; consider having a dedicated IP for your website and email hosting to ensure business operations.

3. Transferring to another web host will not affect your email service
There will come a time when you’ll want to change web hosts. With a few commands, you can easily transfer database and files in a matter of minutes especially if you have an SSH access from your present to future web hosting provider.

It’s a different story for emails, where migration is often scheduled depending on the availability of the engineers who will process it for you.

4. Emails use the disk space provided with your web hosting.
Emails you send, receive with the attachments will also take up space that your website could have used. So why not get them get separately so both can get their own disk space, right? It may be cheaper to have separate web hosting and email hosting packages than upgrading to a higher disk space web hosting plan.

5. Keep your email account secure.
Once your web hosting account is infected with virus or malware, your inbox might be affected, as well. If you want to keep your emails secure, it’s best to keep them separate from your hosting service.

Final Note

If you want to get the most out of your emails, it’s important for you not to consider emails as an afterthought or just a simple add-on feature for your web hosting.

Make sure to keep emails from your web hosting for the valid reasons we’ve mentioned earlier. It may take some time and a little bit of research to understand on how email hosting can leverage your online business but you will soon discover the benefits in the long run.

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